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Wretched
This cough
Grates
On my chest
Leaves me
Unsteady
Anxious
In freefall
-
Dizziness stings
Seconds displaced
-
Chest and lungs
Unified in disharmony
-
As fatigue sets in
My mind is free
But trapped
In a prison
Of liminal living
-
From one bowel movement
To the next
From one guttural
Breath-stealing cough
To the next wheeze
-
Ten seconds out
And then sleep
But just for
An hour
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Rinse and repeat
About the Creator
Paul Stewart
Award-Winning Writer, Poet, Scottish-Italian, Subversive.
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